In celebration of the semiquincentennial this year, "Dear America" looks at the country's land, communities and revolutionary ...

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with U.S. historian Jill Lepore about her new book, "We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution." The writer Jill Lepore wrote a history of the United States called ...

Think you know American history? Maybe it’s time to reconsider. The story of the United States is far more complicated, painful, and fascinating than what most of us learned in school. Too often, the ...

Institutions large and small examine the complicated history of the iconic corridor that helped define the American road trip ...

The government has begun celebrating the 250th anniversary of the United States. For several nights over the New Year holiday, a very tall, very thin video played on the sides of the Washington ...

The Shockoe Hill African Burying Ground in Richmond, Va. CC BY-SA 4.0, CC BY The burying ground looks like an abandoned lot. Holding the remains of upward of 22,000 enslaved and free people of color, ...

There has never been a time when LGBTQ+ people did not exist in classrooms, but for most of the history of American education ...